Mandela began his studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University College of Fort Hare but did not complete the degree there as he was expelled for joining in a student protest. He completed his Junior Certificate at Clarkebury Boarding Institute and went on to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school of some repute, where he matriculated.
But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.He attended primary school in Qunu where his teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave him the name Nelson, in accordance with the custom of giving all schoolchildren “Christian” names.
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have tried not to falter I have made missteps along the way. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. For to be free is not merely to castoff one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. The truth is that we are not yet free we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. “It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, White and black.
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